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A 6 page paper discussing the history of and legal arguments used in the landmark Supreme Court case. Whether abortion is right or not and constitutes a moral decision is still a matter of debate, but it is no longer a matter of law. That debate was settled by Roe v. Wade more than a generation ago. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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was on January 22, 1973 that the Supreme Court ruled on Roe v. Wade. Before the case was decided, abortion belonged too much to the realm of the back-alley
butcher. Abortion was not always accomplished with sterile instruments or even anesthesia, but the dangers associated with it did not prevent women from seeking it with regularity. Roe
v. Wade used the 14th Amendment to make abortion legal, bringing it out of the back alleys and into clinics accessible to all females of reproductive age.
Foundations of the Case Texas had an abortion law in the early 1970s that reflected the laws of
most of the states. Abortion on demand was not allowed, but a woman could have an abortion if her pregnancy endangered her own life. "Jane Roe" (an alias
for Norma McCorvey) was a Texas resident who wanted an abortion for other reasons, and selected Sarah Weddington as her attorney. Weddington started on a misstep, and supporters of
abortion celebrate the fact that her opponent fared even worse. On the second round in front of the Supreme Court Weddington was able to find a Constitutional amendment on
which to base her arguments in favor of abortion rights. The question on which the case rested was whether a woman had the
right to determine the biological function of her own body insofar as she had a choice. Weddington clung to the wording of the 14th Amendment: No State shall make
or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty or property without
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